Summary Aunt Egorich
KD Vorobiev
Aunt Egorich
The story takes place in 1928. The narrative is conducted from the first person; the narrator remembers his childhood many years later. Ten-year-old Sanka is an orphan: his father died in a civil war, his mother died of typhus. He lives in the village of Kamyshinka with his aunt Egoricha and Uncle Ivan. Aunt Egorich, Tatyana Yegorovna, is not his aunt, but they love each other very much, and they like the same thing: to whisper at night, telling each other the day’s news; to sip borsch from a bowl filled to the very ends, otherwise it is sad to eat; they love that everything interesting that happens in Kamyshinka, lasts longer, and does not like one-day holidays; love parties, accordion, dances. Uncle Ivan, in the street – Tsar, Sanka is brought home by his uncle, he is the brother of his deceased mother, but he is not an employee, he is “shuffling, nuts,” and therefore they, probably, the poorest in the village. Now Sanka
Maxim Evgrafovich Motyakin, in the street – Momich, Sanya’s neighbor, aunt and Tsar, helps them survive: he brings flour, then a ham, then honey; In the spring, they plow up their garden. Momich is widowed, he has an adult daughter, Nastya. Uncle Ivan does not like Momich, and Sanka notices that he only plays shamelessly when Momich is near: then he takes off his pants and, turning to his aunt a bare ass, loudly and quickly screams: “Dyak-dyak-dyak!”
Momich burned a stool (barn), which the Tsar had secretly set on fire, becoming angry with his aunt once more. Momichu put out the club can not, and they build a new club with Sanka. From the top of the new club Momich shows Sanka the world surrounding Kamyshynka: fields with bushes of undergrowths, meadows and marshes, and further, in the west, an endless battlement of the forest, which Momich, with the sky, clouds and winds
Aunt Egorikh is summoned to the village soviet, and, returning from there, she tells Sanka that she was chosen as a delegate from the whole Kamyshinka and tomorrow they will take me to Lugan on a village bricks. In Lugani, she is offered to move to live in a commune: “Everyone, San, go up to the brass chimneys, and go to bed and get up, and have breakfast and have dinner,” the aunt said. The next day a cart arrives behind them, and at the last moment they decide to take the Tsar with them: “What will he do here?”
Life in the commune is not as remarkable as it seemed to Sanka and her aunt. On the first floor of a two-storeyed manor house in a large hall, enclosed by two rows of marble columns, there are bunks: on the right are women sleeping, on the left are men, only nineteen people. Auntie is appointed a cook, and she cooks peas from morning till night – the only one I write to the Communards. After a while, tired of the hungry communal life, Sanka proposes to the aunt to return to Kamyshinka, but her aunt thinks that she is ashamed to return. However, a few days later Momich appears in the commune, and Sanka and his aunt, leaving in the former manor house the chest they brought with their unmistakable good, secretly leave the commune on the Momychev cart. A few days later the Tsar returns home.
On the fourth day of the carnival, the Kamyshin women go to the church, with which they removed the cross on the eve and put a red flag in its place. The women are shouting and shouting: they want the cross to be returned to the place, and suddenly Sanka, who also ran to the square, sees that the rider is rushing directly from the village council to the women – it’s the policeman Golub, about whom they say that he is never sober. Baba rushes in all directions, and only the aunt remains standing in the middle of the square, raising her hands to the face of the blue horse; The horse stands on its hind legs, suddenly a shot is heard, and my aunt is falling. Sanka with a cry “Golub aunt killed!” runs into the house to Momich, they together run to the square, and the mourning Momich carries on the outstretched hands the body of his aunt.
The next day Momich and Sanka go to the cemetery and choose a place for the grave – under the only tree in the cemetery. Sanka and the Tsar, sitting in a sleigh on both sides of the coffin, go to the cemetery, Momich travels all the way. Returning from the funeral, Sanka hides in the trunk all the aunt’s belongings and all the things connected with his aunt. Living together with the King, they do not sweep the floor, do not tolerate slops, and the hut quickly scares.
There is a towel under the window of the Momichovaya hut and there is a dish of water: a tetkin’s soul will fly here for six weeks, and it is necessary that she has something to wash and wipe. Every day Momich travels somewhere, returns late. Then Sanka found out that Momich was looking for the Golub council in Lugani, but Golub himself met him. One day, looking out of the window, Sanka sees in the yard a cart and horse policemen. When Momich was taken, there were many rumors in Kamyshinka about his meeting with Golub, but nobody knew what they were talking about. Only Golub appeared in Lugani late at night tied up, and the revolver and saber with it, broken into pieces, the militiamen then found in Kobyl a log.
Summer is coming. The king is sick. There is absolutely nothing to eat in the house, the vegetable gardens are not plowed. Sanka goes to the other end of the village to steal an onion at night, and he and the King eat it, dipping into salt. Once, after returning with another portion of onion, Sanka heard on the porch a numb silence in the house. Laying a bow in the closet from behind his bosom, he leaves the house and, having waited in the pasture of sunrise, leaves from the Kamyshinka.
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